Heinrich Held
| Heinrich Held | |
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| Minister President of Bavaria | |
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In office 1924–1933 |
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| Preceded by | Eugen Ritter von Knilling |
| Succeeded by | Ludwig Siebert |
| Minister for Commerce, Industry and Trade | |
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In office 1927–1932 |
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| Minister for Agriculture | |
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In office 1930–1932 |
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| Minister for Economy | |
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In office 1932–1933 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
June 6, 1868 Erbach, Hesse-Nassau |
| Died | August 4, 1938 (aged 70) Regensburg |
| Nationality | German |
| Political party | Bavarian People's Party |
| Residence | Regensburg, Bavaria |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
Heinrich Held (6 June 1868 – 4 August 1938) was a Catholic politician and Minister President of Bavaria. He was forced out of office by the Nazi takeover in Germany in 1933.
Heinrich Held was born in Erbach in the Taunus, then a part of the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau. His father, Johannes Held, was a local farmer and musician, his mother was Susanne Held née Kaiser.
Held studied law at the universities of Strasbourg, Marburg and Heidelberg before becoming a journalist in Strasbourg in 1896. He moved to Heidelberg the year after and became editor of the Regensburger Morgenblatts, a newspaper in the Bavarian city of Regensburg, in 1899. He moved to take up the same position at the Regensburger Anzeiger the year after. From 1906, he became a co-owner of those two newspapers and began his political career as a speaker in the conservative-Christian workers' movements.
Held was elected to the Bavarian parliament in 1907, standing for the Bavarian branch of the Centre Party, and he held his seat there until 1933. He belonged to the left wing of his party and was mainly interested in fiscal politics.
He quickly rose to power within the party, becoming his party's leader in the parliament in 1914 and leader of the party itself shortly afterwards. In 1917, Held was elevated to the title of Geheimer Hofrat, a member of the Bavarian Privy council.
In 1918, after the end of the monarchy in Bavaria, Held was one of the co-founders of the Bavarian People's Party (BVP), transforming the Centre's Bavarian branch into a new party which emphasized conservative elements and states rights. Held remained the parliamentary leader of the new party.
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